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The Law in One Word: Love
Commentators emphasize that Paul, following Jesus, condenses the entire moral law into a single, powerful principle: love. Instead of a complex system of rules, the Christian life is guided by this one word. As Charles Spurgeon notes, the gospel spirit is one of condensation, not the expansion of commands. This love fulfills the law's true intent.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 5:14
18th Century
Theologian
For all the law is fulfilled. That is, this expresses the substance of the whole law; it embraces and comprises all. The apostle, of cours…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 5:14
Even in this (εν τω). Just the article with εν, "in the," but it points at the quotation from Le 19:18. Jews ([Reference Luke 10:2…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 5:14
19th Century
Bishop
This verse is another of the marked points of contact between this Epistle and that to the Romans. The theme of it is worked out at length in Roman…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 5:14
19th Century
Preacher
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Oh, if that "one word" were so eng…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 5:14
Throughout his letter Paul has been arguing against law and in defense of the Gospel of pure grace. Now, in a most striking fashion, he returns to …
John Calvin
On Galatians 5:14
16th Century
Theologian
For all the law. There is a contrast in this verse—though not plainly stated, yet clearly understood—between Paul’s exhortation and the do…
John Gill
On Galatians 5:14
17th Century
Pastor
For all the law is fulfilled in one word
Not the ceremonial law, to which acts of mercy, kindness, and love are oppo…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 5:13–15
17th Century
Minister
The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness (1 Timothy 6:3), and is so far from giving the least approval to sin, that it places us…